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  • Video of Final Exam Review for My Spring 2025 Introduction to Language and Technology Class

    Last night, I recorded this final exam review for my Introduction to Language and Technology ENG1710 students. These are the slides that I’m using in the background. The following are the readings that my students and I discussed over the past 14 weeks that comprise the exam review:

    1. Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”
    2. Ted Chiang, “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”
    3. Victoria Fromkin, “What is Language?” from An Introduction to Language
    4. Stephen Jay Klein, “What is Technology?”
    5. Salikoko S. Mufwene, “Language as Technology: Some Questions That Evolutionary Linguistics Should Address”
    6. Walter J. Ong, “Writing is a Technology That Restructures Thought,” in The Written Word: Literacy in Transition,
    7. Bruce Mazlish, “The Fourth Discontinuity”
    8. Jacques Derrida, “Linguistics and Grammatology,” translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
    9. Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”
    10. N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, Chapter 1: “Toward Embodied Virtuality”
    11. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Chapter 1: “The Medium is the Message”
    12. Friedrich Kittler, “Gramophone Film Typewriter”
    13. J. David Bolter and Richard A. Grusin, “Remediation”
    14. Lisa Gitelman, Always Already New, “Introduction”
    15. Fred Turner, “Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community”
    16. Lev Manovich, Language of New Media, Chapter 1: What is New Media?”
    17. Alexander Galloway, “What is New Media? Ten Years After The Language of New Media”
    18. Laurie McNeill and John David Zuern, “Online Lives 2.0: Introduction”
    19. Anil Dash, “The Lost Infrastructure of Social Media”
    20. David Nofre, Mark Priestley, and Gerald Alberts, “When Technology Became Language: The Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Computer Programming, 1950-1960”
    21. Marie Hicks, Introduction to Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
    22. Jacques Derrida, “Signature Event Context”
    23. William Hart-Davidson, “On Writing, Technical Communication and Information Technology: The Core Competencies of Technical Communication”
    24. Dan Milmo, Seán Clarke, and Garry Blight, “How AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT or Bard Work—Visual Explainer”
    25. Alan F. Blackwell, “Are You Paying Attention?” from Moral Codes
    26. Lorena O’Neil, “These Women Warned of AI’s Dangers and Risks Long Before ChatGPT”
    27. Maria Christoforaki and Oya Beyan, “AI Ethics—A Bird’s Eye View”
  • Slidedeck for Final Exam Review in ENG1710 Intro to Language and Technology, Spring 2025

    looking straight up at a blue sky with a few wispy white clouds circled by the outstretched limbs of tall trees

    During tonight’s class in Introduction to Language and Technology (ENG1710), I’ll give the final exam review. This covers some old and new material compared to reviews that I’ve given before. I’ll record it and post it to YouTube as I have done past reviews for my students and the curious. Here’s a link to the slidedeck that I’ll be working from. I’ll follow up with a link to the YouTube video of the review in the coming days.

  • Remember to Clean Your PC’s Air Intake

    dust covering the front air intake of a midtower PC

    Due to the noise my workstation makes during AI inference, I keep it on the floor under an adjacent desk. Down there, it’s in the shadows. So, I was a little surprised how dusty the front air intake was after being in operation just a little over a month. It probably says a lot about how bad the air quality is in my apartment despite running three HEPA air cleaners in a roughly 600 square foot space. I know that it would be better for the PC to be up off the floor–on the desk, for example. Unfortunately, its noise and disco lights on the CPU fan and white light on the NVIDIA RTX 3090 make this an undesirable choice. I’ll have to remember to vacuum it every two weeks or so, and I might add a foam sheet behind the front grill to help catch more dust before it goes into the case and lands on the components’ heatsinks and fans.

    I’m reminded of The Crafsman‘s “Don’t Forget Your Dust Mask.”

  • Videos From The Ninth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on SF, Artificial Intelligence, and Generative AI

    audience of people listening to a panel of five people read stories in a large auditorium-style classroom.

    If you weren’t able to make it to this year’s City Tech Science Fiction Symposium but are interested in the intersection of SF, AI, and GenAI, you can listen to the presentations, stories, and discussions in the videos from the event below, and you can see some photos taken by Hugo Award winner Andrew Porter on the Science Fiction at City Tech website here.

    9:00AM Opening Remarks
    Jason Ellis and Justin F. Vázquez-Poritz

    9:20AM Paper Session 1
    Moderator: Wanett Clyde
    Jason Ellis, “A History of Generative AI in SF”
    Jacob Adler, “The End Zone: A.I. as a Commentary on the Human Condition in 17776”
    Martijn J. Loos, “A Plea for Theory: The Relationship Between Real-World AI and its Representation in Science Fiction”

    10:50AM Paper Session 2
    Moderator: Kel Karpinski
    Virginia L. Conn, “The Tyranny of Neutrality in AI 2041”
    Nathan Lamarche, “Monotheistic Ethics in Caprica: The Consequences of AI Development on Queer Futurity”
    Adam McLain, “Computational Poetics: Franny Choi’s Soft Science and the Dialogues to Come”

    1:10PM Student Panel
    Moderators: Jill Belli and Vivian Zuluaga Papp
    Lucas Felipe
    Journey Ford
    Malik Joseph
    Christine Retirado
    Ronald Hinds

    2:10PM Asimov’s/Analog Writers’ Panel
    Moderator: Emily Hockaday
    Sarah Pinsker
    Mercurio D. Rivera
    Sakinah Hoefler
    Matthew Kressel

    4:00PM Keynote Address
    Speaker:
    Marleen S. Barr, “Science Fiction/AI/Feminism: A Temporal Progression”
    Moderator: Leigh Gold

  • 2nd Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium Was a Great Success

    With nearly 100 registered attendees and more unregistered, the 2nd Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on Extrapolation, Interdisciplinarity, and Learning on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 was a great success! We were honored to have Samuel R. Delany give the event’s keynote address, and we had excellent presentations and panel discussions from scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates! Below, I’m embedding video of all of the presentations from the symposium. Visit this site for a copy of the program.